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Private Ernest Haden

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Military service

Service number: 222561
Age: 20
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Nova Scotia Regiment)
Division: 85th Bn.
Birth: April 10, 1897 Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
Enlistment: October 5, 1915 Nova Scotia
Death: May 6, 1917 Vimy, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: IV. C. 12.
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Son of Samuel Haden and Eliza Ellam and adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander and Jessie Urquhart, of Millville, Boulardarie, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He emigrated to Canada in 1909 with his brother William Haden.

His brother William Haden, adopted son of William Matheson of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, served in the Canadian Merchant Navy as Fireman William Matheson. He lost his life on February 6, 1941 when his ship the SS Maplecourt was torpedoed by the German submarine U-107 (Günter Hessler). He was sailing with convoy SC-20, station 84.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 249 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LA CHAUDIERE MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

LA CHAUDIERE MILITARY CEMETERY is approximately 3 kilometres south of Lens and is situated on the north-western outskirts of Vimy.

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